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COMBINATION CHAIR. No. 478,662. Patented July 12, 1892.

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W. H. TUTTLE. COMBINATION CHAIR.

No. 478,662. Patented July 12, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM H. TUTTLE, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

COMBINATION-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 478,662, dated July 12,1892.

Application filed $eptember 24, 1891. Serial No. 406,690- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. TUTTLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Detroit, county of IVayne, State of Michigan, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in CombinationOhairs; and Idedeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itpertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

Myinvention has for its object the production of a combination-chair soconstructed that it is capable of being arranged for a library-chair, astep-ladder, and an ironing table or board.

In its essential features it consists, of a frame with arms occupying aposition substantially the same as those in an ordinary arm-chair, andhaving a portion of the frame adapted to swing up for a step-ladder, andarranged to provide four. steps. To the frame is pivoted anironing-board, preferably, so that it will hang back of the chair whennot in use. This board is also pivoted to oneend of the arms, so thatthey may form a support for one end of the board when in use. Incombination with the board I use a series of fingers adapted to take ahorizontal position when the board is' swung into position for use, andthus provide a clothes-rack.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing my invention as alibrary-chair. Fig. 2 is a View showing the chair arranged for astepladder. Fig. 3 is a view showing it arranged as a childs high chair.Fig. 4 is a view showing it arranged as an ironing board or table.

The frame proper consists of the rear posts A, formed substantially likethose in an ordinary chair, and the forward posts A, having the lowerend set forward at about the usual distance from the rear post, butinclined backward so that its top is about one-half the distance of thatat the bottom, or that of the top of anordinary chair-leg. These frontlegs or posts I extend above the seat 13, and to the top I hinge thepost 0, which, in connection With the post 0, forms the side supportsfor the upper portion of the step-ladder, as hereinafter described. Therear portion 1) of the seat is supported by the frames A and A,

I while the forward portion 6 is supported on the frames 0 and C. Whenthe upper stepladder portion, consisting of the posts 0 and O, are swungupward and into the position shown in Fig. 2, by reason of the posts Aextending above the seat, the forward portion b of the seat of the chairis elevated into the position shown in Fig. 2, so that the portion b ofthe seat becomes a second step for the stepladder, and the portion b athird step. IVhile the cross-frames b and b were joined beneath the seatwhen in position as a library-chair, when swung into position for astep-ladder the portion 11 forms the first step of the stepladder, andthe portion 19 the fourth step, The upper step-ladder portion when swungupward into position rests against the upper portion of the uprightstandards A, and the upper end of the standard 0, nowbeinginverted,becomes the lower end of the innerstandard of the ladder-support, andrests on bracket-s a in the standard A, which receives the thrust of theladder, supporting it and making it perfectly safe.

()n the side of the standard 0', I pivot the hooks c, which, when theframe is in position for a library-chair, is hooked below in a ring setin the outside of the standard A, and when in position as a ladderhooked in a similar hook or ring in the upper end of the standard A.

The back portion D of the chair is pivoted at either the top or thebottom, as-preferred, between the back-standards A and is adapted to beswung outward into a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 3, and form achilds high chair. I prefer to have this portion form a panel with thelower-edge several inches above the seat of the chair and pivoted atthis edge, so that it may beswung downward into its horizontal positionand rest at the front end on the upper end of the standard 0.

In combination with the chair, as heretofore described, I use an ironingboard or table E, which I pivot, preferably, at one end between theupper ends of the vertical standards A, so that it is permitted to hangvertically along the back of the chair and to be raised and swung overinto a horizontal position above and in front of the chair, as shown inFig. 4..

Each arm F is connected by a link at its front end to the upper end ofthe link G, that ICO reaches diagonally downward across the mainframe-work, and is pivoted at the lower end to the standard A. The linkG normally and usually rests in a brace or bracket g, that is secured tothe standard 0; but its forward end is free to rise to permit the propermovement of the arm F when the ironing-table E is turned from its vetical to its horizontal position. The rear end of each arm F is linkedto the side of the ironing-board, the lengths of the various connectingparts-the link G, the arm F, and the two short links between F and G andF and Ebeing so proportioned that the arm F takes nearly a horizontalposition when the ironing-board E is vertical and a more uprightposition when the ironing-board is swung to a horizontal,so that the armF forms in one position the arm proper of a chair and in anotherposition the supporting-leg of a table. hen the ironingboard is swung toa horizontal position, it carries with it the rear end of the arm F andlifts the entire arm F upward, lifting the rear end, however, more thanthe forward end. The forward end of the link G is also lifted upward andbackward; but as the ironing-board E reaches the end of its movement thearm F and the forward end of the link G drop downward and the link Gcomes to rest in its supporting-bracket g, and the arm F is now in itssecond or vertical position. The board E in its present position maybeused for any purpose to which a table is adapted. As shown in thedrawings, it is especially adapted to be used as an ironing-board.

On a rod between the upper portions of the standards A, I pivot a seriesof long fingers H, adapted to hang down behind the chair and underneaththe ironing-board. These fingers have a portion h projecting above thepivot, so that when the ironing-board is swung into its horizontalposition it rests on the upper ends it and elevates the fingers into ahorizontal position back of the chair, as shown in Fig. 4, where theymay be used as a clothes-rack or as a support for other articles. By theuse of this construction the fingers automatically take their positionwhen the board is swung into its position.

Iam aware that combination-chairs adapted to form a step-ladder havebeen used; but I am not aware that a construction has been used in whichthe free portion of the frame adapted to be swung upward into positionfor a step-ladder has been pivoted above the seat, so as to form anadditional step when the free portion is elevated. This I accomplish. byextending the standards upward and pivoting them as I have shownv anddescribed.

What I claim is- 1. In a combination-chair, a frame having its frontlegs extending above the plane of the seat and supporting the inner halfof the seat, and auxiliary frames hinged at the top of said legs andsupporting the forward porseat and supporting the inner half of theseat,

and auxiliary frames hinged at the top to the top of said legs andsupporting the forward portion of the seat and adapted to swing up andform a step-ladder, and brackets adapted to receive the thrust of theupper portion of the ladder, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a chair-frame, of a table hinged at one end tothe top of the frame of said chair, a link hinged to said chair-framenear the bottom, a chair-arm connected by short links to said table andto the said first-mentioned link,the said table being adapted to hang ina vertical position behind the chair-frame and to swing from suchvertical position to a horizontal position over the chair-seat and thesaid arm being adapted to swing with said table from a horizontal to anupright position and to form in its upright position a support for thetable, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. In combination with a chair,a table pivoted at one end to the top ofthe back of the frame of said chair, arms pivoted to said table at oneend and to swinging bars at the opposite end and adapted to formvertical supports for said table when swung in a horizontal position,substantially as described.

5. In combination with a chair,a table pivoted at one end to the top ofthe frame of said chair, hanging normally back of said chair and adaptedto be swung'into a horizontal position above said chair, fingers pivotedto said chair-frame and provided with extensions It, said fingershanging normally parallel with said table, said extensions extendingabove the pivot of said table, whereby the said table is adapted whenswung into its horizontal position above said chair to carry the saidextensions into a horizontal position and to support said fingers in ahorizontal position, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with a chair-frame, of a table hinged to saidchair-frame, fingers pivoted to said chair-frame and adapted to hangnormally in a vertical position between the chair-frame and the table,the said fingers being provided with upward-extending portions h,adapted to be brought under the table when the table assumes ahorizontal position and to coact with the supporting-pivot and the tablein forming a secure support for the said fingers, substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of twowitnesses.

' NVILLIAM H. TUTTLE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. FISK, MARIoN A. REEVE.

